11-24-2016, 04:35 AM
(11-23-2016, 08:14 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(11-23-2016, 05:27 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Progressives see problems that must be fixed. Conservatives don’t see the problems as that grave. Both perspectives might seem natural if the problems aren’t so serious in the conservative region as in the progressive. Historically, if one doesn’t solve the problems they continue to get worse until the resolve finally comes that they must be addressed. Alas, if the problems are worse in the more progressive regions, and the solutions are applied nationwide, there is a perception in conservative areas of fixing what isn’t broken. It is natural to ask why one can’t just be left alone.
It's more that conservatives see progressive cures as worse than the disease. Progressive insistence on crushing dissent, to the point of eliminating freedom of the press, is hardly a step toward freedom as far as conservatives are concerned. Similarly for many other progressive initiatives.
I don't think "dissent" as racial intolerance and fake news is all that much worth us progressives defending.
Enabling and empowering corporate power and wealthy bosses is not a step toward freedom either, but the reverse, But it's just this that constitutes "conservatism" in the USA today.